Bauhaus Museum in Dessau

Bauhaus Museum in Dessau

The new museum is to go beyond the familiarity of mere recognition and establish a more complex relationship between symbol and point of reference. Therefore, we have established an open system under the primacy of the formal language of the spatial organization that moves from the mimetic representativeness in the direction of another type of model that provides a visual and sensory perception. The openings in the parallel structural walls have their alter ego in the partitions with which they are connected, and so we free the shape of the base, so that there is a clear link with the space around it.
The zoning of the plan is clear and functional, is characterized by elegant simplicity, geometric clarity, according to the natural beauty that Kant formulated. Reduced to the necessary and rational. The basic structure of the building is formed by "two-directional walls", whose overlaps create functional spatial relations, but also define the point of anchorage, bearing.

Museum in the park*

The ground floor is completely open in the east-west orientation, creating a clear relationship Road-Museum-Park, which is equally important, viewed from out of town and out of the greenery of the park. The sequencing of the content shown in the regular grid of parallel walls provides a clear functional direction of use, but by the formation of vertical communication, the "skipping" of functions is allowed, the reprogramming of certain areas, so that the space for temporary exhibitions follows the part of the permanent collection, and the like. The ground floor is exposed for looks, while the floor seems introverted, closed, oriented towards the longer side, so as to create a dynamic overlapping of the contents of exhibitions and to allow a clear path of the tour and the viewing.
All the walls are concrete walls, highlighted constructively, and the glass surfaces are bordered in black thin steel sections, which can be rotated and tilted in different directions.

Open circuit*

The vertical structure of the support walls defines the bearing points, the stress points of the structure as a space lattice. The openings that serve the communication and function break the set structure and are composed of uniform circular segment openings. The superposition of two mutually arranged perpendicular segments of the circle creates a stressed point, a spacious two-dimensional open circuit as the segment of experience of sincere constructiveness, of construction, the symbol of harmony.
Recurring motifs or the total of views through the openings, the equipment and shadows form a special illusion of space and light.